Preventing Data Center Downtime

Preventing Data Center Downtime

Data center downtime can be costly and disruptive Lee Kirby, Uptime Institute’s executive director, said in summing up the 2018 Global Data Center Survey report, “Outages are costing us more and having greater impact.” Nearly 80% of respondents to the survey indicated...
Preventing Data Center Downtime

Energy Best Practices for Data Centers

Are you using best practices in your facility? Energy usage is a hefty budget item for large and small data centers. A major trend in data management is moving to the cloud. Small and large businesses that had in-house infrastructure and only used the cloud for back...
Preventing Data Center Downtime

Planning a Building Automation System Project

Building Automation Infrastructure Modern building automation systems (BAS) can control basically everything that is electrical in the building, and will reduce building energy and maintenance costs. Even on a smaller scale, BAS is very complicated. The building...
Preventing Data Center Downtime

What is Data Center Energy Management?

In the data center industry, we are seeing a widening range of data centers. Cloud and Colocation facilities are larger and higher density capacity with electrical demand in the tens and hundreds of megawatts. There is edge computing where small data centers are...
Preventing Data Center Downtime

What is a Master Systems Integrator (MSI)?

The MSI is fast becoming a building owner’s key strategic partner. Building systems are becoming so complicated that it would take a super hero to manage them. There is a new super hero emerging in the building services market and it is the Master Systems Integrator...
Preventing Data Center Downtime

Why Energy Management is Important

Energy management is more important than ever as businesses look to control costs, control energy and attract younger customers conscious about corporate social responsibility. Unfortunately, many commercial facilities and businesses do not have their own energy...
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10 Mind-Blowing Energy Efficiency Actions for Data Centers

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Turn Energy Usage and Building Data into Actionable Items